If your kids have enough school supplies, why not spend an extra dollar or two for needy children in the community?

The Community Food Basket is looking for donations of school supplies including looseleaf, crayons, duotangs, scribblers, and glue sticks.

According to volunteer Anne Wade they don't need any more pencils, but everything else would be appreciated at this time of year. She says they currently don't have a lot of the items families are coming in looking for.

Please drop off any donation at The Community Food Basket of Saint John located at 215 Charlotte Street. For more information call 652-2707or after hours at 652-2707.

Summer is winding down and it's time to celebrate the long Labour Day weekend...

In Saint John, you can head to Rockwood Park on Monday for the annual Labour Day festivities between 1 and 4pm. There will be a BBQ, live music, canoe tours, a magic show for the kids, plus wagon and pony rides.

Daycare and early childhood education workers will soon be smiling on payday....the provincial government has brought back a $2.75/hour wage subsidy for people who work with kids, which is one of the lowest-paid professions.

Education minister Jody Carr tells CHSJ News they plan has been to decrease the turnover rate, as well as bring wages in New Brunswick up to speed with the rest of Canada. He further says childcare worker wages are a pay equity issue, since the profession is mainly pursued by women.

The change is effective on September 1rst and will be paid retroactively to April 1, 2012. Over the next 3 years the government intends to spend $38-million on a bigger early childhood action plan called Putting Children First.

There will be a celebration of the life of Sarah MacDonald tomorrow at the Wallace Community Chapel in Sussex at 1:00.

She's the 32 year old mother of three from Belle Isle Creek who was struck and killed by a car earlier this week while standing next to her car after her family's R-V ran out of gas by East Scotch Settlement Road.

There's visitation this afternoon from 1 to 3 and again tonight from 6 to 8 at Wallace Funeral Home on Sunnyside Drive in Sussex.

The new ambulance station on City Road has been up and running for a number of months now but the official opening has just taken place.

The President and C-E-O of Ambulance NB Alan Stephen tells CHSJ News alot of thought went into choosing where the ambulances should be located to reduce response times and that has happened. Stephen says what that means is over a hundred people stand a better chance of surviving medical emergencies.

Before it was built, the ambulance service was operating out of a hotel room across the street which Stephen concedes was inadequate.